A collection of stories and poems, arranged in four sections corresponding to the four seasons

Stories: A Crazy tale / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- How the rhinoceros got his skin / Rudyard Kipling -- Reflections / Lafcadio Hearn -- Complements / Emile Zola -- The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers / John Ruskin -- The Elephant's child / Rudyard Kipling -- The Bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Remarkable rocket / Oscar Wilde -- Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain -- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi / Rudyard Kipling -- Uncle David's nonsensical story about giants and fairies / Catherine Sinclair -- The Fox and the hedgehog / Aesop -- The Goose-girl / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm -- The necklace of Princess Fiorimonde / Mary de Morgan -- The Crow and the pitcher / Aesop -- The Bridge comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- Humpty Dumpty / Lewis Carroll -- The Stag looking into the water / Aesop -- The Mock Turtle's story / Lewis Carroll -- The Problem of Thor Bridge / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Spring lover and the autumn lover / Lafcadio Hearn -- The Three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy -- Ali the Persian's story of the Kurd Sharper / The Arabian Nights -- Feathertop a moralized legend / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Recessional / Saki -- Death and Cupid / Aesop -- The Red shoes / Hans Christian Andersen -- The Signal-man / Charles Dickens -- Witches' loaves / O. Henry -- The Horla, or modern ghosts / Guy de Maupassant -- The Belltower / Herman Melville -- In the dark / E. Nesbit -- William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Queen of spades / Alexander Pushkin -- All souls' / Edith Wharton -- The Remarkable case of Davidson's eyes / H.G. Wells -- The Nose / Nikolai Gogol -- The Song of triumphant love / Ivan Turgenev

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